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- This invention relates to the field of semiconductor laser modulation control.
- Semiconductor laser modulation control is desired because the optical characteristics of semiconductor lasers typically used for optical data communications exhibit strong temperature dependence and long term degradation due to aging. Control can be achieved by maintaining the laser at a fixed temperature using a thermoelectric cooler. However this is an expensive solution, and generally will exhibit a substantial time to settle on first turn-on. It also does not compensate for variations due to aging. High frequency methods have also been used to provide modulation control ("Simultaneous Feedback Control of Bias and Modulation Currents for Injection Lasers," Chen, F. S., Electronics Letters, Vol. 16, Pgs. 7-8, 1980; U.S. Pat. No. 5,402,433, Stiscia, J.
- 5,394,416 and 4,924,470 provide direct control of extinction ratio by measuring the intermodulation products of two low level pilot tones superimposed on the laser current.
- Ries discusses the merits of several automatic modulation control techniques, including pilot tone methods (see U.S. Pat. No. 5,394,416 for a more detailed discussion).
- the present invention is laser modulation control apparatus and methods which provide direct control of the transmitted optical extinction ratio of a semiconductor laser.
- a relatively low frequency and low amplitude pilot tone is superimposed on the signal used to drive the laser.
- the transmitted optical power varies a fixed fraction of the optical data amplitude at the pilot tone frequency.
- the amplitude of the variation can be maintained at a desired value, which in turn maintains the transmitted optical data amplitude at a constant value, regardless of variations due to operating temperature or laser aging.
- a separate control loop is employed to maintain the average optical power at a fixed value. Since the optical data amplitude and the average optical power remain constant, the optical extinction ratio is also constant. Because low frequency signal processing is used to determine the high frequency data amplitude, the transmitter bit rate is not limited by the automatic modulation control circuitry. An advantage of this method is that the absolute amplitude of the pilot tone is not important since the technique relies on the relative amplitude between the pilot tone and the modulation current. Therefore, there is no need for precision amplitude control of the pilot tone oscillator.
- the present invention is further refined by applying the pilot tone in such a way that the amplitude of the optical power variation remains monotonic as the modulation current is increased beyond the lasing threshold.
- objectives of the present invention include providing circuits and methods which provide laser modulation control at high bit rates and:
- FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of one embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 graphically illustrates the relationship between laser currents and monitor diode currents.
- FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an alternate embodiment of the present invention for a laser having an AC coupled laser modulation current.
- FIG. 4 graphically illustrates the relationship between laser currents and monitor diode currents for the AC coupled circuit of FIG. 3.
- FIG. 5 shows modifications of FIG. 1 including synchronous detection and injection of the AC reference at the monitor diode input (an alternate embodiment).
- FIG. 6 is another alternate embodiment which incorporates improvements of both FIGS. 3 and 5.
- FIG. 1 a schematic diagram of one embodiment of the present invention may be seen.
- a semiconductor LASER is driven with a bias current IBIAS, plus a modulation current Imod dependent on the state of a double ended input data signal D+, D-. If the data is a logic one (a higher voltage on input D+ holding transistor Q1 on, pulling the common emitter connection of transistors Q1 and Q2 up so that the lower voltage on input D- holds transistor Q2 off), the modulation current Imod will also pass through the laser as Q1 conducts. If the data is a logic zero, transistor Q1 will be off and transistor Q2 will be on. This directs Imod from the power supply VCC through transistor Q2, rather than through the laser and transistor Q1.
- an additional current Imod/X will be switched into the emitters of transistors Q1 and Q2, depending on the state of the relatively low frequency oscillator.
- the laser current is composed of IBIAS during zero data bits. During one data bits, the laser current is an envelope having a lower value of Imod+ IBIAS and a higher value of Imod+ IBIAS+ Imod/X, giving an average value of Imod+ IBIAS+ Imod/2X and an amplitude of the envelope variation of Imod/X.
- the minimum difference in the laser current between a logic zero and a logic one is Imod
- the optical signal emitted by the laser will have a zero level dependent on IBIAS, unaffected by the low frequency switching of Imod/X through transistor Q1.
- the difference in the optical output between a logic zero and a logic one input will be proportional to Imod, and the variation in the optical output for a logic one input due to the low frequency switching of Imod/X through transistor Q1 will be proportional to Imod/X, which of course is proportional to Imod itself.
- control of Imod to obtain a predetermined low frequency variation in the optical output of the laser simultaneously provides a predetermined difference in the optical output between a logic zero and a logic one input, without any high frequency control circuits and techniques being used.
- Also measuring the average optical output of the laser and controlling IBIAS in response to drive the average measured output to the desired output, the average optical output and the extinction ratio are directly controlled by simple, low frequency circuits.
- a monitor photodiode MD detects a portion of the emitted optical signal from the laser and emits a photocurrent.
- the high frequency (data) information in the photocurrent is filtered by capacitor Cmd such that the remaining current is a DC current with the low frequency ripple.
- the desired DC monitor diode current is subtracted from the monitor diode current by a reference current source Imd.
- Transimpedance amplifier A1 with feedback resistor Rf converts the residual current (monitor photodiode current minus the current of reference current source Imd) into a voltage which is coupled to an automatic power control (APC) error amplifier A2 and a low frequency amplitude detector.
- APC automatic power control
- the error amplifier A2 has a positive gain, a direct coupled low pass output, and a cut off frequency set by compensation capacitor Capc at a frequency lower than that of the low frequency oscillator. With the negative feedback of amplifier A1, the output of amplifier A2 controls the value of Ibias such that the DC monitor photodiode current is equal to the desired current Imd. Thus the average optical signal emitted by the laser is held to a level providing an average illumination to the monitor photodiode to provide a current Imd there through. Note that the relationship between the laser current and the laser emission is monotonic, as is the relationship between the laser emission and the monitor current. Thus the average power control (APC) control loop has a single, easily stabilized operating point.
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- the output of amplifier A1 will be a square wave at the low frequency oscillator frequency with amplitude ⁇ Imd.
- the low frequency amplitude detector senses the amplitude of the low frequency ripple on the output of amplifier A1 and in response, couples a DC signal to the automatic modulation control (AMC) error amplifier A3 proportional to the ripple.
- the low frequency amplitude detector may be, by way of example, a rectifying circuit to provide a direct coupled signal proportional to the ripple in the output of amplifier A1.
- Amplifier A3 compares the detected ripple amplitude ⁇ Imd with the desired value as set by AMCREF (a DC reference voltage). Again using negative feedback, the output of A3 adjusts the modulation current Imod such that the ripple amplitude ⁇ Imd is equal to AMCREF.
- the negative feedback in this case is not provided by amplifier A1, as the amplitude of the ripple as detected by the low frequency amplitude detector is not phase sensitive. Instead, the negative feedback is provided by amplifier A3, the input connections as shown in FIG. 1 decreasing Imod for increasing detected ripple.
- Capacitor Camc sets the frequency response of the AMC loop lower than the frequency response of the APC loop. In this manner, the APC loop always sets the DC optical power before the AMC loop sets the amplitude of the optical data signal, though of course both responding much faster than laser drift from temperature and aging variations of the laser.
- the amplitude of the pilot tone current ripple during logic one bits is a known fixed fraction of the modulation current Imod
- the amplitude of the optical power detected by the monitor photodiode is a known fixed multiple of the low frequency optical ripple amplitude ⁇ Imd.
- the low frequency photodiode current is given as follows: ##EQU1## where AImd is the amplitude of the low frequency ripple detected at the monitor diode, which is proportional to the transmitted amplitude of the optical signal, ⁇ total is the total slope efficiency from laser current to monitor diode current above threshold, ImdAC is the amplitude of the detected photodiode current, and X is the fixed fraction of modulation current to pilot tone current.
- FIG. 2 graphically illustrates the relationships described above.
- the laser current envelope and the monitor diode current envelope epresent the envelopes, or upper ("1") and lower ("0") values of the high frequency data signal, which is too high in frequency to itself be illustrated in the Figure.
- this arrangement results in a transfer function of modulation current to ⁇ Imd which remains monotonic, even if Imod is increased beyond the lasing threshold.
- This technique could be applied at IBIAS, resulting in a data envelope with ripple on both the logic one and logic zero.
- the modulation current is increased beyond the lasing threshold, the low frequency ripple amplitude will decrease until the ripple on the logic zero is fully clipped. The may give the transfer function multiple possible operating points.
- the present invention is applied to a laser which has an AC coupled modulation current, such as capacitor Cac of FIG. 3, it is desirable to adjust the pilot tone frequency such that it remains above the cutoff of the AC coupling network.
- a small amount of ripple will be apparent on the optical zero level due to droop of the AC coupling network. If this happens, multiple operating points or latch-up may still be a problem.
- a small pilot tone Imod/Y with an amplitude equal to a fixed fraction Y of the modulation current is added with a 180 phase shift to IBIAS, this can be avoided by making the transfer function monotonic once again.
- Y can be set to 10% of X or smaller, as this is a second order effect. This modification is shown in the schematic of FIG. 3.
- Imod/Y As shown therein, a component of current Imod/Y is generated in addition to Imod/X. As these current components are generated by the circuit shown, they are in phase with each other. However, the current mirror shown reverses the phase of Imod/Y, converting the same to a true current source when Imod, as shown, actually acts as a current sink ("current source” is the phrase normally used in a general sense for both current sources and current sinks, current sources providing a current to another circuit and current sinks receiving or drawing a current from another circuit).
- current source is the phrase normally used in a general sense for both current sources and current sinks, current sources providing a current to another circuit and current sinks receiving or drawing a current from another circuit).
- the low frequency amplitude detector can be a peak detector or a synchronous amplitude detection circuit.
- a signal representative of the desired monitor diode ripple signal ⁇ Imd can be directly subtracted from the monitor diode current at the input of amplifier A1. This is illustrated in FIG. 5, which is a Figure similar to FIG. 1, but with the modification described, and FIG. 6, which is a Figure similar to FIG. 3, but with the modification described. In these cases, synchronous detection is required, and the inverting input of amplifier A3 should be connected to ground instead of a reference as described above.
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